He said: "I look at myself as a pretty romantic guy. I'm a creative guy. You gotta be creative, you gotta be different. And these things stick with women for the rest of their lives so I had to go above and beyond."

Speaking about his proposal to Eudoxie, he added: "I had written in the grass her name and 'will you marry me?' So once she saw it and we looped around, of course she burst out into tears and was just extremely happy. So it was a pretty original idea."